TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnes,Eric
TI  - The city where we once lived: a novel 
SN  - 9781628728835
AV  - PS3602.A8338 C58 2018
KW  - Cities
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Future, The
KW  - Science fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Apocalyptic fiction
KW  - Dystopian fiction
N2  - "In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture, the North End of an unnamed city has long been abandoned in favor of the neighboring South End. Aside from the scavengers steadily stripping the empty city to its bones, only a few thousand people remain, content to live quietly among the crumbling metropolis. Many, like the narrator, are there to try to escape the demons of their past. He spends his time observing and recording the decay around him, attempting to bury memories of what he has lost. But it eventually becomes clear that things are unraveling elsewhere as well, as strangers, violent and desperate alike, begin to appear in the North End, spreading word of social and political deterioration in the South End and beyond. Faced with a growing disruption to his isolated life, the narrator discovers within himself a surprising need to resist losing the home he has created in this empty place. He and the rest of the citizens of the North End must choose whether to face outsiders as invaders or welcome them as neighbors."--Jacket flap
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